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Why are fossil fuel resources sometimes referred to as " buried sunshine"?

Why are fossil fuel resources sometimes referred to as " buried sunshine"?
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Why are fossil fuel resources sometimes referred to as " buried sunshine"?

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Because they captured energy from the sun through a process called photosynthesis
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Because they are found deep in the Earth and the energy stored in them was obtained from the Sun long ago.

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